The Death of "Why?": The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy Book

The Death of "Why?": The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy, Obsessed with answers, we have lost sight of the power and value of questions. Debates over globalization, climate change, health care, and poverty will not be solved with simple answers, but that's what Americans are being trained to expect. Andrea Bat, The Death of "Why?": The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy

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The Death of "Why?": The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy
Written by author Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Published by Berrett-Koehler Publ Inc, July 2009
Obsessed with answers, we have lost sight of the power and value of questions. Debates over globalization, climate change, health care, and poverty will not be "solved" with simple answers, but that's what Americans are being trained to expect. Andrea Bat
"There's a reason," writes Andrea Batista Schlesinger, "that The Secret has sold nine million copies." Americans want answers to weight loss, health care, globalization, climate change. We want to believe that we can fix things once and for all, if we onl

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Introduction: Questions and Power 1

Part I Culture: Questions or Answers? 11

1 Inquiry Is Risky, Resilience Is the Reward, and Other Lessons from Childhood 19

2 Ideological Segregation by Click and by Clique 26

3 Consuming Opinion 43

4 In Google We Trust 57

Part II Schools: Citizens or Consumers? 75

5 The Three Rs and a Why 85

6 No Piggy Bank Left Behind 103

7 Questioning the System, or Beating It? 119

8 The Marxist, Anti-American Conspiracy to Convert Young People to Engaged Citizenship 135

Part III Politics: Engaged or Connected? 147

9 Black and White and Dead All Over 155

10 Who's Afraid of Virginia Youth? 173

11 Lights, Camera, Debate! 190

Conclusion: A Call for Slow Democracy 206

Notes 217

Acknowledgments 244

Index 247

About the Author 253

Title: The Death of "Why?": The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy

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Publication Date: July 2009

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 5.500 cm (2.17 inches)

Heigh : 8.400 cm (3.31 inches)

Depth: 0.900 cm (0.35 inches)

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